Friday, March 25, 2011

FSO–Yellow

The colour yellow is the topic for this week's Friday Shoot Out.

I live with my moment of yellow madness. A few years ago I got a bit down during a bleak winter and the lack of colour around me and decided I simply had to brighten myself somehow. I’m sure there could have been a lot of solutions – mine was to paint my fridge a bright, sunshiny yellow. Once upon a time I didn’t keep my fridge covered with invitations, photos, kids art work, etc but I do now to tone down the colour a bit.

Not long after I ran amok with the paint, a visitor who was into colour therapy enquired about my health and explained that yellow relates to the solar plexus chakra and listed off problems associated with this area. One of them was gall stones. I was pretty stunned – I was having major gall stone problems and waiting for surgery. Was I more in touch with my body than I realized?

I could have done worse. This depicts a bit more accurately how I was feeling at the time:

I still think yellow is a bright, happy colour although I will add that it looks better on the beach than it does in the kitchen:

I’ve posted a photo of this moth before but couldn’t go past it’s beautiful soft yellows to illustrate the lovely yellows we find in nature. GB tells me it is a non-native Slender Burnished Brass (what a wonderful name) which came from West Africa to Australia and arrived here in 1984. It's now common in the north of the country. The caterpillars eat soy-bean plants, potatoes, parsley, carrots and cabbage.

Sandstone rock formation:
It took a craftsman to release the natural colours of this piece of native timber:

Yellows always look lovely in the garden whether as primary or complimentary colours:

I love the splashes of yellow added to these pieces of Polynesian art that grace the walls of the marae (meeting place) where I work.

We see splashes of yellow around the farm. Just as a yellow flag is used in car racing to signal caution, we use a yellow plastic handle to grip to take down an electric fence. Until you get the hang of it caution is recommended.

I read that yellow shines with optimism, enlightenment and happiness. As in this next shot perhaps?

I really enjoyed this topic. If you love the colour yellow, pop over here to see the photos of the rest of FSO members.

23 comments:

I agree, yellow is a happy color and whether in nature or man made it's radiance demands attention. I love it in nature most of all. This is such a special collection of photos from the fridge to the stained glass window! Exceptional photos.

My favourites are the stained glass window and the beach picture with the children and their toys. I also think yellow is a good colour in a kitchen. I went to a lecture about colours in interior decoration once (nothing to do with chakras) - actually to do with choosing colours in hospitals especially. Yellow does stimulate us and it is a good colour to brighten a dark room or where you want a sunny feeling. I have yellow curtains in my kitchen (except in the winter when I change to red and white around Christmas). A bit easier to change than to repaint the fridge according to mood ;)

i like all of your yellow including your fridge story. i have nothing yellow in my house at all, not one piece of it. i like yellow flowers a lot. in the 60's i had a yellow gold fridge but it came that way. we painted our aqua stove and oven because it did not match the fridge. i like the carving, what talent. and the children with the pails is a wonderful capture.

Lovely yellows, Pauline! I love the look of sandstone, too, reminds me of the beaches of my home town.A friend of mine redid his kitchen with all the appliances in fire-engine RED. I would hate to have breakfast there every day.

Pauline, I get the biggest kick out of your blog. your sense of humor tickles me and I always have a smile on my face. I really like that sandstone rock formation. It has great color and texture. I think it's beautiful.

Pauline - you've certainly found lots of yellow photos to comment on. My favorite is the children on the beach. The sandstone rock formation is amazing! I enjoyed seeing the artwork in the marae...my new word for the day - thanks!

what a great shoot out Pauline!! I love the sandstone and the murals in your meeting room. that must be nice to have such color and decoration in a meeting room. ours are drab, I guess so you will not be distracted....... lol